One Week to a Holiday–and counting

You couldn’t tell it from the weekend in town, reports the spousal unit (Elaine). Stores were packed and people were shelling out easy money for anything that had a sale tag on it.

Still, a weekend in town does not an economy make. So we will just hold our comments on the illusion of growth until we do a more methodical check of business in the Wednesday Peoplenomics.com report.

Still, the market should not begin to rally much this week (or next) because of seasonals as much as anything: The Sell in May and Go Away, the data in our charts, and the facts of the ECB and Fed meetings in June.

So for today, I’d look for a modest still-off since markets around the world went a bit soft overnight. Japanwas down more than half a percent, Hong Kong about half that. Germany is down 3/4ths of a percent, France down almost one percent, but the Brits are only down a third.

Since, as I’m quick to remind you, the whole world is “wired” (intermarket arbitrage) a person can’t look solely at how their own country is doing; there’s some contexting to be done and the updrafts and downdrafts here will bounce according to winds elsewhere to some degree.

Nasty Nest of Neocons

I don’t know how long before someone besides me figures out that the unelected peoplerunning US foreign policy all need to be fired, but remember where you read it first.

For one, the US has decided to end the decades long embargo on selling arms to Vietnam.

Hello? Anyone home back in Washington? Anyone have a clue WTF these clowns are doing?

Here’s the simple Big Picture: Vietnam is palsy with China. China is dredging up sand bars and calling them islands, and then colonizing them.

In case you’re not seeing this one clearly, here’s the deal in a nutshell:

The Russians invited us to jointly attack the ISIS folks. But, near as we can tell, the NNN (nasty nest of neocons) turned down the chance to clean up ISIS because the kooks in the neocamp have not yet abandoned their latest wet dream, which is “regime change in Syria” if you haven’t been paying attention.

The long game, of course, is being called by the Saudis because they want a pipeline to Europe, and to get that, they need Syria out of the way. So in return for a war in Syria, the neocons barter a crooked peace with Israel, and make obscene profits for the US death industries.

Oh, and they stimulate the European economy from mass immigration because the EU would have already imploded by now because they are basically banko.

And does Obama do jack-stuff about it? Nope. He’s fired every military leader with integrity who would call out the NNN and it’s almost like he hates America and supports immigration in order to promote the tearing down of borders (increases in domestic strife) because that will result in more demands for government control and that, in turn, is the wet dream of every socialist: More, bigger, and worse government.

The whole thing is cooked, but all the big players have skin in the game, and if we had borders, we might not have such a growing security state apparatcik, ergo, the idea of someone like Trump coming in with clear eyes scares the hell out of the GOBN (good old boy network).

We are so ‘’effed’’ are we not?

But So at the Brits

Oh, year.

Scaremongers at the Crown treasury and trying to stampede the kneeler kingdom out of the common sense move to exit the EU (Brexit).

Suppose you invented a device that would encourage people to waste about a third of their time at work, facilitated social mapping by government and intelligence agencies, could be used by extremists groups for recruiting, allowed all your “ex’s” to stalk you, and gave your HR Department access to that drunken romp with the football team…. And more and worse…

So would THAT be a good product to turn loose on an average IQ population without a warning on it?

You know, cigarettes have large warning labels on them because they are bad for you.

Why Not on Social?

I think the warning ought to go something like this:

“You are entering a social media site. Anything you write and publish here, including but not limited to opinions, videos, prose, etc. can will be will used against you by people who don’t like you. In fact, people who hate you, WHO MAY BE after after your job, or your own government, will track everything in perpetuity and will crucify you with your own words out of context should it please the corporate-government agenda.

If you are willing to take that risk, and for companies if you are willing to allow all of your customer base data to be accessible and be charged to contact your own customers, then click:

OK, I AM AN IDIOT

To proceed.

Off to the Eye Doc for another check. I’m up to 20-30 land for 7-hours per day now…starting in about 30 minutes, so TTFN…

8 Comments

Ray on May 24, 2016 at 21:12

Neocons can be colloquially (but accurately) referred to as: Liberals who like guns — not Glocks, mind you, but thermobarics…

State was populated from FDR through GHW by a liberal Democrat Congress whose diplomats were, for the most part, the political offspring of Neville Chamberlain and Josef Stalin. Beginning with Reagan, prominent east coast GOPers started to trickle into State as the Republicans, who’d bemoaned the “commies and pinkos in the State Department” for a generation, decided they HAD to do something to make the diplomatic corps less liberal, before State gave away the entire nation. This trickle continued through Bush-41 and became a flood after the “Republican revolution” in Congress, in 1994.

The “neoconservative,” although born out of a schism within the Democrat Party of the 1960s, wasn’t considered a bad thing by Republicans, because neocons got dissed in the press for saying stuff about Democrats that Republicans also said, and because they registered at the polls as “Republicans.” “Neocon” didn’t really become a noteworthy term until the ramp-up to the 2000 Election. In fact, many in the “good ol’ boy” Republican Establishment welcomed these Dem converts (many still do…)

IMO the fact we’ve traded dovish Liberals in the State Department for hawkish Liberals is much less significant than the fact State has been populated principally by liberal one-worlder pussies ever since WW-II.

What I’d like to see, personally, is the next Administration (or three) try “Something Completely Different” by populating positions at State with Libertarian-leaning conservatives. The U.S. can NOT be isolationist, but at the same time, having our nose up the pooper-chute of every other nation on the planet is getting really old, probably for all parties concerned…

bemused on May 24, 2016 at 07:08

” they stimulate the European economy from mass immigration because the EU would have already imploded by now because they are basically banko”

Do you give credence to the 50 week moving average falling below the 100 week moving average?

Mark Sivad on May 23, 2016 at 14:09

From what I have been reading lately, I don’t think the Vietnamese are that close to the Chinese (friction in all sorts of areas).

anonymous on May 23, 2016 at 09:45

“Still, a weekend in town does not an economy make.”

I know I am anxiously awaiting the GOPSELLOUT bill.. you know the one that tosses money at the biggest big boys out of the pockets of the little big boys and the middle class.. now my question is.. with the titan terrors going after each other under the mainstream current.. well will that affect how they move forward to seize it all .. I expected a false flag market drop sometime this late spring or early summer after it all starts. so that the biggest big boys could buy corporations at rock bottom prices so that when it does fall for the count they could be shot to the next galaxy in power and wealth over everyone.. Then How will the congress selling out the american citizen deal out with this to. shoot do they even show up to vote.. they sure don’t read this crap they vote on and when you see their lips move to sell you on how they feel on stuff that they have been saying since I was in diapers. that is when the old story comes in.. how can you tell if a politician is lying.. his lips are moving.. LOL. also politicians should be treated like diapers usually full of bull and should be changed often.. its all going to be interesting to see how it plays out in the end.. will my psychic abilities be right on once again.. if they are.. george well you can understand how I feel if it does happen.. its damn hard to be humble when you drive the nail with the hammer one whack…

J Blower on May 23, 2016 at 09:27

“The lowlanders to the south even today are inclined to drink the royal Kool-Aid and kneel to government – event when it publishes such pap as the “year’s long recession” prediction.

There are simpletons, and there and British voters; but then, I repeat myself.”

As a “lowlander” and a British voter, I can assure you we are not simpletons. Our MSM is pushing hard propaganda which certainly does not reflect the feeling of the general public….we have had enough of the BS and we want out of the EUSSR!

Mark Sivad on May 23, 2016 at 15:41

Good to hear it, no way to measure the effectiveness of MSM propaganda in the UK from the other side of the Atlantic.

Sherlyn Lampe on May 23, 2016 at 08:59

be sure to catch Joseph Farrell on last night’s Coast to Coast in the archives. He says the neocons are not the top dog, but a global network worth 300 trillion (tier three government he said) and the people behind the twin towers disintegration. He found I G Farben old time Nazi ties to the Bin Laden family. Sounds like the Nazi civilization currently headquartered in South America and Antarctica.